Sea to Summit Frontier UL 3-Piece Cutlery Set Review

What’s in the box

Three pieces of grey, hard-anodised aluminium: a fork with four tines, a deep spoon and a knife with a serrated edge, each with the Sea to Summit logo on the handle and slots cut through it. There’s no case or clip; the handles stack on top of each other.

Quick Specs

Light, thin and sturdy

This is what makes the set: the three pieces weighed 24 g together on our scale, and each one is thin. Thin cutlery often bends the first time you cut through a sausage, but these don’t; the aluminium is hard-anodised and the handles have a profile that makes them stiff. At 16.8 cm they’re a normal cutlery length, so eating with them feels like using your cutlery at home.

The knife, fork and spoon

The knife has a serrated edge, which cuts through sausages and steak at camp far better than a smooth plastic knife. The fork has four proper tines and the spoon has a deep bowl, so cereal, soup and stews are no problem. The eating ends are semi-polished, which feels smoother in your mouth than matte anodised metal, and the spoon is shaped to follow the curve of the Frontier bowls, so it scrapes them clean. The slots in the handles save weight, and you can hang the pieces on a hook or tie them together through them.

Packing and cleaning

The handles are shaped to stack, so the three pieces sit flat on top of each other and take up almost no room in a cook kit or a bag. There’s no clip or carabiner to hold them, though, so we keep them in a pocket of the kitchen bag. They aren’t dishwasher safe: dishwasher detergent wears off the anodised finish. Wash them by hand, which is quick with three thin pieces, and don’t leave them soaking in acidic food.

The 2-piece set

Frontier cutlery also comes as a 2-piece set, the Frontier UL Spork and Knife, which we’ve used too: the spork does the fork and spoon’s job in one, and the set weighed 16 g on our scale. If you’d rather have a proper fork and spoon, take this 3-piece set; if you want the lightest option with a clip, the 2-piece.

Cutlery sets compared

We’ve used five Sea to Summit cutlery sets. This 3-piece Frontier set is our dinner cutlery, the Frontier UL Spork and Knife is the lightest, and the long-handled Frontier UL Cutlery Set is for deep meal pouches and serving.

The Camp Cutlery Set is our cheap plastic backup, and the Detour Cutlery Set is solid stainless steel but much heavier. In the car, our Frontier and Camp sets live in a Kings Plus Pocket Organiser on the tailgate.

	This oneFrontier 3-Piece	CheapestCamp Cutlery Set→	SteelDetour Cutlery Set→	LongFrontier Long→	LightestSpork & Knife→
Long handles	No	No	No	Yes	No
Dishwasher safe	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Material	Aluminium	Plastic	Stainless steel	Aluminium	Aluminium
Length	16.8 cm	18.5 cm	18.8 cm	21 cm	16.8 cm
Weight	24 g	31 g	135 g	34 g	16 g
Price paid	$40	$5	$45	$36	$30
Our score	9.4	8.9	9.1	9.0	9.3

Conclusion: Sea to Summit Frontier UL 3-Piece Cutlery Set

The Frontier UL Cutlery Set is a full-size fork, spoon and serrated knife that weigh 24 g together, thin and light but still sturdy. The handles stack flat, there’s no clip, and it isn’t dishwasher safe. I paid $40, more than the other sets, and it’s the one with a fixed place in our kit.